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Juan Goni is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Exchange Online Deployment group and invited us over to take a look at his home setup. Juan has some of the same challenges many of us do, for starters he's got a bunch of machines and one set of speakers, here he uses a mixing board to control the audio from each. Juan also controls lighting through his PC and uses Media Center and extenders throughout his house to distribute video and music.

Very neat "Sala de Servidores"! How about posting the specs? ...mmm... that would be a huge list of hardware, eh? But the best idea was to get rid of wifi and have all stuff wired together, that brings speed! Anyway, I bet there are some wifi around to plug
in a laptop or a cell phone. Great setup! Thanks for sharing!

Very impressive. I really like the idea of dedicated machines. However, how does that affect your power consumption? Wouldn't it be easier to combine the tasks of the multiple PC's using better hardware?

Although the foundation is on Windows Server 2003 the product is nothing like the server. Your granny can work with it, it has a simplified interface (console) where you can manage your home pc's to backup and store all of your digital assets with the option
to duplicate the files on the same server for safety reasons. (if one breaks you always have the other to your avail).

The hardware reqs are not even that high, there are Atom editions with only 2Gb but personally I like it to have a little more power. But if you have a spare low end machine that might be sufficient to work on.

Check it out, you'll be surprised how easy it works!

-= Maarten =-

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